Sentence examples for merely dark from inspiring English sources

This is not, however, merely dark comedy about post-traumatic stress disorder; rather, it is farce with a point, much like the early stories of Gabriel Garcia Mrquez.

The piece had worked during tryouts, but that was before the announcement that Reagan had Alzheimer's, and the writers fretted that the darkly comic might now seem merely dark.

Officer Valle's lawyers have argued that their client's communications, disturbing as they were, were merely dark fantasies that he exhibited on Internet Web sites used by thousands of people.

Measure for Measure is in its first superlative half made up of debate and dialogue; the play is not merely dark, but abstract, intellectual, argumentative - and the arguments all turn on bodies.

Polarized (selectively blocks direct sunlight and its reflections) sunglasses are better than merely dark sunglasses.

That's not merely a dark day for the rule of law.

But the evolution of computer security is not merely some dark mirror, passively reflecting advances in technology.

Do the extreme attacks against them constitute another defense necessary for our survival, or are they merely a dark outburst of hate and rage?

The 1930's, it turns out, were not merely the "dark valley" of Nazism and the drift to total war, they were also the seedbed for what would succeed it too, a world enthralled by economic growth and domesticity.

But this year's school will be fraught, for some of the party's own leaders have taken to denouncing it as lifeless, rudderless and ready to be buried.Were such accusations merely the dark mutterings of has-been grandees, they might not matter.

Many, if not most, Americans reeled in the wake of last November's election results, having written off a Trump presidency as merely a dark impossibility, and that feeling has only deepened in the intervening months, as his destructive cabinet and regressive policies have started taking shape.